Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Off Armageddon Reef: First Entry: First 40 Minutes
Title: Off Armageddon Reef
Author: David Weber
Date: 2007
ISBN: 9780765315007
Genre: Science Fiction, Military Fiction, Human vs. Alien war, Post-Apploc
Series: ?
Publisher: Tor
Pages: 592
Pages: On: 48
Chapters: Many parts and I-II’s etc.
Chapter On: ? Part 2?
Time spent: 40 minutes
Rating: ?
Recommend?: ?
Mankind spread to the stars. A ship intercepts an alien world with evidence of advanced life. Life has been destroyed. Most believe the advanced intelligent life was destroyed by another intelligent race (Ghabba, or something like that, randomly chosen name).
Ghabba enter one of Mans far-flung colonies. Ghabba destroy colony. War erupts. Man about even technology wise (Ghabba have been around for 1000s, if not millions of years, but not flexibable, not innovative (at least anymore), stagnent culture), but Ghabba civilization is much larger Man (humankind).
Seeing the end of Man, “Mission Control” sends a colony fleet away from Earth using sneaky techniques to get away from observation (all other colony fleets tracked and destroyed - one got away, but scout ships eventually found that colony and destroyed it - believed technology signals emitting from colony lured the Ghabba to the colony).
Operation Ark sent out - 47 ships visible, 47 ships hidden from view. 47 ships then break away. Establish colony. Belief that technology will lead Ghabba to colony, a system is set up to deny use of and advancement of technology.
Adult colonists have minds altered with implanted false memories - believe they “awoke” fully formed as adults on the planet. “God” and his “angels” (the crew of the ships that deposited the colonists on the colony) “created” the adults, placed them on the planet, and the humans (“Adam”’s and “Eve”’s) told to reproduce like rabbits (not those exact words). Complicated . . . . more stuff but brain froze.
Note: I raced through the “last” book in the Axis of Time series so that I could start Off Armageddon Reef. Learned yesterday that I was going to need to return Off Armageddon Reef in two days (now 1 day), so I need to hurriedly read it.
Author: David Weber
Date: 2007
ISBN: 9780765315007
Genre: Science Fiction, Military Fiction, Human vs. Alien war, Post-Apploc
Series: ?
Publisher: Tor
Pages: 592
Pages: On: 48
Chapters: Many parts and I-II’s etc.
Chapter On: ? Part 2?
Time spent: 40 minutes
Rating: ?
Recommend?: ?
Mankind spread to the stars. A ship intercepts an alien world with evidence of advanced life. Life has been destroyed. Most believe the advanced intelligent life was destroyed by another intelligent race (Ghabba, or something like that, randomly chosen name).
Ghabba enter one of Mans far-flung colonies. Ghabba destroy colony. War erupts. Man about even technology wise (Ghabba have been around for 1000s, if not millions of years, but not flexibable, not innovative (at least anymore), stagnent culture), but Ghabba civilization is much larger Man (humankind).
Seeing the end of Man, “Mission Control” sends a colony fleet away from Earth using sneaky techniques to get away from observation (all other colony fleets tracked and destroyed - one got away, but scout ships eventually found that colony and destroyed it - believed technology signals emitting from colony lured the Ghabba to the colony).
Operation Ark sent out - 47 ships visible, 47 ships hidden from view. 47 ships then break away. Establish colony. Belief that technology will lead Ghabba to colony, a system is set up to deny use of and advancement of technology.
Adult colonists have minds altered with implanted false memories - believe they “awoke” fully formed as adults on the planet. “God” and his “angels” (the crew of the ships that deposited the colonists on the colony) “created” the adults, placed them on the planet, and the humans (“Adam”’s and “Eve”’s) told to reproduce like rabbits (not those exact words). Complicated . . . . more stuff but brain froze.
Note: I raced through the “last” book in the Axis of Time series so that I could start Off Armageddon Reef. Learned yesterday that I was going to need to return Off Armageddon Reef in two days (now 1 day), so I need to hurriedly read it.
